§ 20-64. Funding for municipal services.

A municipality exercising its right to provide beach services shall be reimbursed in the following manner. There shall be deducted from projected revenues in the pro forma budget adopted by the county council the direct cost of collecting beach revenues, after which there shall be established a percentage of total remaining revenues representing beach revenues. That percentage shall be applied to the cost of providing each respective service in a municipality according to the service levels established with the budget. The resulting product shall be remitted to the municipality providing the service in quarterly installments in amounts corresponding to the percentage of projected beach revenues received during the preceding quarter. Any fines or forfeitures which by operation of law a municipality may receive for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter shall be a credit against the reimbursement the municipality would otherwise receive. A variance greater than ten percent between projected beach revenue and actual receipts shall be accounted for and the adjustment made in the final quarter of the fiscal year. A municipality shall be entitled to the reimbursement provided for in this section only if it shall provide service at a level at least equal to the level established in the approved budget. In no event shall the amount reimbursed to a municipality, including credits, exceed the actual cost of providing a service.

(Ord. No. 87-36, 9.03, 11-16-87)